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Teenagers wanting blue bubbles and people looking to uninstall iMessage because it's a threat vector are two completely disjoint sets of people.
by vultour 3y ago
Teenagers wanting blue bubbles and people looking to uninstall iMessage because it's a threat vector are two completely disjoint sets of people.
- munk-a 3y agoAbsolutely - but the business interest of wanting to keep teenagers on iPhones absolutely would impede Apple from allowing users to uninstall the application.
- paulmd 3y agoBlue bubbles bad syndrome. Gotta bring it up when ever humanly possible. Nvidia has a very similar green man bad syndrome going on too. As the amount of time a HN discussion on Nvidia increases, the probability of mentioning that Linus said “fuck you nvidia” approaches 1, even though it’s irrelevant to a topic, or that he's a mercurial asshole who's said a whole lot of things. The casual fanboyism disrupts all discourse on these topics because there’s a large minority of users who have adopted what PG describes as “hater-ism” and allowed it to dominate their thinking on a topic. Negative parasocial attachment is the same process as positive parasocial attachment and just as problematic, but largely never called out. http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html In short: lotta fanboys on these topics who don't even realize they're fanboys/adopting fanboy frames, because they don't realize that anti-fanboys are still parasocially attached too. And we've casually accepted the low level of discourse on these topics, and it pollutes the whole discussion of a lot of interesting topics because of who's doing them.
- matkoniecz 3y agoCan you explain how disliking Nvidia due to being systematically problematic at some point (maybe still being problematic) is a fanboyism or parasocial attachment?